On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:22:35AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:44:40AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:52:12PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > > "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > I've heard a couple times that the reason that gdm2 is not in Sid is
> > > > that it doesn't as yet build on all platforms. Remember, to be available
> > > > in the pools, a package generally needs to be available for all
> > > > platforms Debian supports - that is why some packages are available in
> > > > unofficial ports - not all platforms are available there.
>
> This is rarely a reason for a package not to be in unstable. I think the
> actual reason is that the *maintainer* is trying to get other GNOME
> build problems fixed before worrying about gdm2, which is a slightly
> different matter.
Sure :-) This makes sense.
> > These sources are:
> >
> > Architecture: any
> >
> > > Not true. There are some packages that are architecture-specific, like
> > > plex86 or yaboot for example.
> >
> > These are
> >
> > Architecture: i386
> > Architecture: powerpc
> >
> > So, Brian, this is not good example against above, though.
> >
> > I do not know about real story but ...
> >
> > 1. "unstable" is candidate for "testing"
> > 2. to become "testing", it has to compile for all "Architecture"s.
>
> That's not true, no. Testing doesn't look at the Architecture: field.
> All a package has to do is compile on all the architectures on which the
> version in testing compiled, and be in sync across all of them.
I see. Thanks.
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